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Meet the members of the SOAS Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Centre.

Director of the Centre

Professor in International Commercial Law

Professor Emilia Onyema

International arbitration (commercial and investment); OHADA law; Commercial contracts; International sale of goods; International carriage of goods; Nigerian customary laws.

Deputy Director of the Centre

Professor of Practice

Steven Finizio

Members of the Committee

Senior Fellow

Baiju Vasani

Senior Fellow

Hussein Haeri KC

Hussein Haeri is a partner and Co-Head of the International Arbitration Group at the law firm Withers LLP, where he also leads the firm's public international law team.

Professorial Research Associate

Professor Hiro Aragaki

Lecturer in Law

Mr Ian D Edge

Middle East laws particularly the civil and commercial law of Egypt ,Saudi Arabia and the Gulf; Islamic law and particularly the law of succession, wealth planning and Islamic Finance; International Commercial Arbitration; Conflict of laws and Contract

Senior Lecturer in Law

Michael Bartlet

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Public Law, Law and Literature

Professor of South Asian Law

Professor Martin W Lau

Laws of South Asia; comparative environmental law, Islamic law

Research Associate

Dr Amel Makhlouf

Cross-border disputes, international arbitration, commercial contracts, banking and finance, Islamic law and finance, Middle East laws, comparative law

Reader in Law

Dr Samia Bano

Muslim Family law in the UK and Europe, Family Law, Multiculturalism, Citizenship, Islamic Jurisprudence and Human Rights, Feminist and Critical Social and Political Theories, Issues concerning the rights of Muslim women and Gender Equality.

SOAS Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Centre

The SOAS Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Centre (SADRC) is a research and knowledge exchange centre within the School of Law at SOAS University of London.

Contact us

Email: sadrc@soas.ac.uk